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Past few months have been pretty busy here and you may have noticed that I didn’t post a monthly update post in the last two months. This doesn’t mean nothing has been going on though! In fact, quite the contrary. Last few months have been very busy and we have shipped two new releases and a voting thread for a new 0.7.1 release was just started a few days ago. More about that bellow.

What has been accomplished in the past two months

Libcloud 0.6.1 with a brand new DNS API (among many other improvements and additions) has been released.

A few days after releasing 0.6.1 we have also released 0.6.2 which was primary a bug-fix release, but it also includes some new features and improvements such as support for OpenStack Auth 2.0 API, support for new Amazon location (Oregon) and a CloudStack driver.

A few weeks ago a new committer, Hutson Betts (hbetts) has joined our team. He has previously mostly contributed to the OpenNebula driver and we believe giving him commit access will allow him to contribute more directly and easily and is a good thing for the whole project.

What is currently going on

A lot of things!

This weekend I have just finished adding support for Python 3 to Libcloud. Now we have a single code base which supports both, Python 2 and 3 and as far as I know we are the first Python cloud library which does that. I hope other projects will follow. If you are interested in more details you can read my post titled Lessons learned while porting Libcloud to Python 3 where I have described some of the issues which I have encountered while porting the library. Armin has recently also wrote a good blog post about Python 3 which you should read - Thoughts on Python 3.

I am moving to San Francisco where I will work full time for Rackspace. I will try to organize a Bay Area Libcloud meet-up in the upcoming weeks (hey, free pizza and beer!). I will post more info on the website and mailing list when all the details are fleshed out.